News The Business of Birth Control documentary - free to watch for 4 days

Thanks for this. Gonna watch later today. Went to ob/gyn not long ago felt really weird about how they pushed BC on me but didnt want to give me any info on tube tying, not even info on the procedure itself. I told her BC is off the table it does not make me feel right or better and it just doesnt seem to agree with me, and altering my hormones is a weird thing to do unless medically necessary.... she also said that if I didnt like the way my periods were she could do something about it. Like she was offering cosmetic surgery or something lol. Kinda weirded me out because I have no complaints other than their sheer (natural) existance. I got put on bc at a very very young age and I think that was a mistake. Maybe my hormones were whack cuz idk I was 14? Lol.

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I’m very interested in this subject, too. I can’t say I was harmed by it but I refused to take it long term because of its side effects for me (weight gain, zombie feeling, lowered sex drive). Also curious what the long term consequences are of a healthy person using *synthetic hormones to disrupt her body’s natural rhythm.

As with everything, and as you say, there are pros and cons with everything. Having the power to prevent unwanted pregnancies is huge progress for women. My issue is with Big Pharma and how little consideration there is of the good AND the bad of different medications.

I watched it and enjoyed it! I think it's a very important topic, and I think it's pretty clear that the side effects of birth control are not really interesting to research/medication developers because they already sell so well, and we expect women to put up with side effects.

I can't believe no one spoke about the tran prostration that occurs on the opening slide. Sigh.

Just watched it; need to sleep on it. Thought it was very interesting on the behind the scenes at the FDA stuff. I knew a few of the names they interviewed from dipping in and out of the women's wellness space myself back when I was having knock-out periods and menstrual migraines and trying to sort all that out; good to put faces to names.

Shame about the last roughly 5 minutes when they clearly felt the need to appease the gender crowd, I suspect that will age rather badly and in 20 years we'll re-watch it and go, what a weird note to end on.

The first birth control I was put on was the depo shot.

That was quite the dunk into the deep end.

I've been on FAM for over a decade now and no accidental pregnancies. The only accidental pregnancy I have ever had was before I started on FAM.

*sighs * The documentary is good but for all that talk about the pharma industry they didn't interview a single chemist or pharmacist up to the point I'm at on my watch ( In my corner of the world pharmacists work in that industry reglulary alongside chemist and are taught about making medications from undergrad but i don't know how it is on USA).

I always feel they are VERY overlooked on these kinds of conversations and they shouldn't be

I feel like I watched a Movie about birth when I was pregnant, that had Ricki Lake in it… the business of being born? I remember it not being the best made movie

Thank you for sharing!!!